![]() ![]() Like the saying goes, it ain’t trash talk if you can back it up. Per ESPN, LSU-Iowa drew 9.9 million viewers across all platforms, making it the most-watched women’s basketball game ever recorded, with a peak of 12.6 million. “It’s tremendous for our sport right now, because you’re getting villains, you’re getting energy, you’re going, ‘Hey, these girls have got swag.’ You’re (getting), ’OK, what is that all about?’ from people who don’t even watch women’s basketball.” If it makes you think about what CU did, going to the Sweet 16, I think it’s tremendous. It’s bringing people in to talk about women’s basketball, girls basketball. “So yes, I think it’s fantastic for the sport. “I always say you need a villain in sports,” Mattei said Monday. Longtime girls basketball coach Carl Mattei, now at Denver East, is like Barry in that he’s old-school and doesn’t love the yapping. If the NCAA could twist a few arms to tip the ’23-24 women’s basketball slate with LSU against Iowa, by all means, do it. “I can’t comment on what somebody else’s players (do), (what the) camera catches people doing.”īecause what’s “bad” for the game can also be good for the sport. “I coached (17) years ago,” Barry countered. So would you have punished Clark? Or Reese? I think if you do it all season, it becomes a habit. And what’s going to detract from that is if you’re yelling at officials and you’re getting a technical on the biggest stage. “I think the coach’s job is to help educate the players on what’s going to help us win. Well, you’ve got to keep your players in line and explain to them that, ‘That’s going to cost us.’ If you come down too hard on your players, they’re going to transfer out. I think that’s a function of the transfer portal. To me, taunting hurts your team, as you can get a technical foul. “I wouldn’t let my players jaw (like that), because you can get a technical. ”Well, I’m old-school,” the Buffs legend laughed. She’s athletic, she can make shots, she can hit the open player, she can play the point, she can shoot with range.”Īnd she’s more, um, chatty than Barry would prefer. People that aren’t even basketball fans are talking about her. “If you’re a sports fan, if you’re a basketball fan, you’ve got to watch Caitlin Clark. “I mean, everybody wants to watch Caitlin Clark,” CU icon and former women’s basketball coach Ceal Barry told me Monday. The highest-rated Buffs football game last fall was 1.25 million for CU’s opener against TCU, also on ESPN. ![]() Context: Nuggets-Grizzlies a month ago got 1.21 million on the Mothership. The CU-Iowa hoops game during the women’s Sweet 16 drew 1.29 million viewers on ESPN. Keeler: The best way for Anthony Davis, Lakers to slow down Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic? Kidnapping might actually be it. And then pointed to the finger where her championship ring was going. So, as Reese’s Tigers were putting the finishing touches on the Hawkeyes in a 102-85 victory, the LSU forward gave the Cena gesture right back. She’s also copped actor/wrestler John Cena’s “You Can’t See Me” hand wave to throw at foes, especially after plunging another metaphorical dagger into a defense. She shoots from the half-court logo without batting an eyelid. Why? Because the Hawkeyes’ Clark is this insane hybrid of Steph Curry, Pete Maravich and Nikola Jokic. LSU and Iowa played for the NCAA women’s basketball title Sunday, and folks were still talking about it Monday. “But I’m not that level of athlete, either.” “If I scored a 3-pointer, I’m not raising three fingers in the air as I’m running back,” Jane Wahl, the trailblazing first women’s basketball coach in CU history, told me Monday from her home in Nebraska. Give me a Xavier McDaniel, a Charles Barkley or a John Starks. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ basketball game with 10 Tim Duncans would be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
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